USDC (USDC)

There is zero denying it, stablecoins are arguably the most successful crypto use case to date. In 2025 alone, stablecoin transaction volume hit $33 trillion, rivalling Visa and Mastercard combined. The total market cap grew 49% in a single year, from $205 billion to over $300 billion. And Coinbase's institutional outlook forecasts the stablecoin market could reach $1.2 trillion by the end of 2028. This is cross-border payments, institutional settlement, treasury management, and remittances, real financial activity running on new rails. Most people still think stablecoins are a crypto thing. They're not. They're a payments infrastructure thing.

GM, In a bear market like this, optimizing stablecoin strategies in DeFi can be one of the safest ways to generate passive yield and compound capital while waiting for the next expansion cycle. So let’s break it down clearly: What Is Stablecoin Looping And Why Is It Still Hot in 2026? Looping = You deposit stablecoins $USDC/$USDT as collateral → borrow stablecoins at low interest → swap if needed → deposit again → repeat 3–8 times. Result: – you multiply exposure to base yield. – base stablecoin yield: ~4-12% APY (lending, RWA, basis trades). – with looping: 15-30%+ APY. Even higher if incentives, points, or airdrops are included. It’s essentially leveraged yield farming but with lower volatility because the underlying asset is stable. Risks still exist: - liquidation risk if LTV too high. - borrow rate spikes. - smart contract exploits. Regulatory pressure especially US discussions about restricting stablecoin yield though DeFi remains permissionless for now. Now let’s look at some of the top strategies. 1️⃣ @Morpho + @Aave - #Ethereum / #Base / #Arbitrum >Base APY: 5–10% USDC/USDT lending >Strategy: Deposit USDC → borrow USDC/USDT ~2-5% → redeposit → loop 3–5x >Effective APY: 15-25% >Typical LTV: 75-85% 2️⃣ @Kamino Finance (Solana) >Base yield: 8–12% (lending / sUSDC-style products). >Multiply mode: Automated looping with higher LTV tiers. >Effective APY: 14–24%+. >Plus $KMNO points airdrop farming angle. 3️⃣ @yearnfi Vaults (Ethereum / Base) >Yearn automates: >Lending >Light looping >RWA/T-bill integrations >Base: 5–12% >Leveraged vaults: 18–30% 4️⃣ @pendle_fi + @ethena $USDe strategies >Basis trades >Fixed yield locking (PT/YT) >Delta-neutral looping >Potential yield: 20%+ 5️⃣ Curve Finance + Convex Finance >Stable LP → stake → use LP token as collateral → borrow → loop. >Base yield: 2–8% (fees + CRV rewards) >Looped: 10–20%

Agreed: x402 is one of the most underrated infra play in crypto rn • 161M+ transactions processed • $43.51M total volume • On Base: 123.7M txs, $36.72M, 398K buyers • On Solana: 37.4M txs, $6.78M, 16K buyers • @stripe launched x402 on @base With the Agentic Economy rising this year, AI agents need two things to operate autonomously: payments and trust. x402 solves payments: APIs can now charge agents directly. Agent requests access → server responds with price + wallet → agent pays in USDC → instant access. ERC-8004 solves trust. x402 handles the payment rails. ERC-8004 handles who to trust. Together, they create a closed-loop economy where machines pay machines based on verifiable reputation.

The Irony indeed.. Brian casually stating if crypto rewards do not pass, Coinbase still make more money lol 😂 All eyes on March... #CLARITYAct

This guy woke up and said… yeah, today’s the day 😅, no matter it's weekend. 12 hours ago, a brand-new wallet, 0xcd6b437786DD3237a5332B4da3Ad431b340aEB33, dropped $2M USDC straight into Hyperliquid, then It went straight into a long on $NVDA with 2x isolated leverage. Right now the position sits at 21,687 xyz:NVDA, worth roughly $3.97M. Entry was around $184.31, with #NVDA currently hovering near $183.16, so yeah… slightly down. Unrealized PnL is about -$24.4K, putting ROE at roughly -1.24%. Funding’s already chipped away another ~$1.9K, just slowly doing its thing. What’s interesting is how tight and deliberate it looks. Margin posted is about $1.97M, liquidation way down at $97.04, so this isn’t some reckless max-pain setup. Either this turns into a clean NVDA patience play… or it becomes a very expensive first impression. Time will tell, but for now, the seatbelt’s on and the engine’s running.